Why the world cannot afford the rich

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00723-3

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SwingingKoala@discuss.tchncs.de · 73 pts · 2y (3 replies)
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Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Hey, now. That's not fair. The rich purchased these policymakers fair and square. They are bought and paid for, so they can do what they please with them, thank you very much.

SwingingKoala@discuss.tchncs.de · 12 pts · 2y
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MyDogLovesMe@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

Ahhh, yes “Policy Makers”, AKA “They”, aka “Someone”, … those guys.

Policies and Government regulations, decision making, ungh, it’s so nebulous getting to something actually measurable and effective.

I’m so checked out…

Kyrgizion@lemmy.world · 49 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Don't eat the rich! You don't know where they've been!

Compost them instead. Better yields that way.

harderian729@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Just redistribute their wealth and make them work normal jobs like the rest of us.

That'd be a fate worse than death, for them.

deafboy@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 2y (1 reply)

That’d be a fate worse than death, for them.

And for us. The global economy and supply chain took a mere vacation during covid, and we're still paying the price. If you're into that, may the odds be in your favor...

otp@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 2y

And yet the rich got richer. Not just unscathed...they got out better.

They should suffer too.

But their wealths will be redistributed, so it'll sting a little bit less for everyone else!

FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y

Because they’re junk food.

I don’t eat junk food.